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1. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

   danah boyd, Nicole B. Ellison · 2007 · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 16,224 cites

   Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

2. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

   Robert D. Putnam · 1995 · Journal of democracy · 14,079 cites

   Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert D. Putnam (bio) Many students of the new democracies that have emerged over the past decade and a half have emphasized the importance of a strong and active civil society to the consolidation of democracy. Especially with regard to the postcommunist countries, scholars and democratic activists alike have lamented the absence or obliteration of traditions of independent civic engagement and a widespread tendency toward passive reliance on the state. To those concerned with the weakness of civil societies in the developing or postcommunist world, the advanced Western democracies and above all the United States have typically been taken a

3. Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy

   Michael Woolcock, Deepa Narayan · 2000 · The World Bank Research Observer · 4,326 cites

   In the 1990s the concept of social capital—defined here as the norms and networks that enable people to act collectively—enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence across all the social science disciplines. The authors trace the evolution of social capital research as it pertains to economic development and identify four distinct approaches the research has taken: communitarian, networks, institutional, and synergy. The evidence suggests that of the four, the synergy view, with its emphasis on incorporating different levels and dimensions of social capital and its recognition of the positive and negative outcomes that social capital can generate, has the greatest empirical support and lends its

4. Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital

   John Brehm, Wendy M. Rahn · 1997 · American Journal of Political Science · 2,447 cites

   Theory: Social capital is the web of cooperative relationships between citizens that facilitates resolution of collection action problems (Coleman 1990; Putnam 1993). Although normally conceived as a property of communities, the reciprocal relationship between community involvement and trust in others is a demonstration of social capital in individual behavior and attitudes. Hypotheses: Variation in social capital can be explained by citizens' psychological involvement with their communities, cognitive abilities, economic resources, and general life satisfaction. This variation affects citizens' confidence in national institutions, beyond specific controls for measures of actual performance.

5. The social context of well–being

   John F. Helliwell, Robert D. Putnam · 2004 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2,358 cites

   Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate equations designed to explore the social context of subjective evaluations of well-being, of happiness, and of health. Social capital, as measured by the strength of family, neighbourhood, religious and community ties, is found to support both physical health and subjective well-being. Our new evidence confirms that social capital is strongly linked to subjective well-being through many independent channels and in several different forms. Marriage and family, ties to friends and neighbours, workplace ties, civic engagement (both individually and collectively), tru

6. Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility

   Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, et al. · 2022 · Nature · 643 cites

   Abstract Social capital—the strength of an individual’s social network and community—has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health1–8. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Here, in the first of a pair of papers9, we use data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook to study social capital. We measure and analyse three types of social capital by ZIP (postal) code in the United States: (1) connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low versus high socioeconomic status (SES); (2) social cohesion, such as the extent of cliques

7. Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community

   Anabel Quan‐Haase, Barry Wellman, James C. Witte, et al. · 2002 · 249 cites

   This chapter contains section titled: Debating the Internet's Effects on Social Capital An Expedition to Study Users of the Internet Network Capital Civic Engagement Sense of Community Social Capital in the Internet Era

8. Transforming Individual Civic Engagement into Community Collective Efficacy: The Role of Bonding Social Capital

   Charles R. Collins, Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary P. Neal · 2014 · American Journal of Community Psychology · 150 cites

   Collective efficacy is defined as residents' perceived collective capacity to take coordinated and interdependent action on issues that affect their lives. This study explored factors associated with neighborhood collective efficacy among residents. Utilizing a national sample of 4,120 urban households provided by Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connection Initiative, we investigated the mediating role of residents' perceptions of bonding social capital (i.e. reciprocity, trust, and shared norms) in the association between civic engagement and collective efficacy. Multiple regression analyses revealed that civic engagement and bonding social capital were both directly related to collectiv